René Magritte was an artist from Belgian. His art style was very unique, most of the imagery being unexplainable but impactful by displaying arrays of emotion, and provoking thought.
Magritte managed to influence many artists such as Duane Michals, Luis Rey, and John Baldesseri. But outside of this, he also influenced movies, and music-- many of those influences being seen in pop music, as it takes on many characteristics of Magritte's simplistic, but thoughtful works.
Magritte's father was a tailor and his mother was a miliner who drowned herself when he was only 14 years old. In 1926, he woud sign a contract with a Brussels art gallery, which allowed him to become a full time painter. The same year, the gallery would allow him to hold his first solos show: "The Lost Jockey." Through almost his entire professional career, he was accompanied by his wife. In 1922, he married Georgette Berger, daughter of a butcher in Charleroi. She first met Magritte when she was 13 and he was 15. 7 eyars later they would meat again in Brussels, as Georgette was also studying art. Their marriage lasted nearly two decades, despite Magritte indulging in an affair with a young performance artist, as Georgette also began an affair with Magritte's friend.